the city doubled. there were horses and horse and buggy was was the travel there are street cars and elevated res no subways but the cycle came along. has been something that special specialized riders but safety bicycles came along and the mass started to ride. the bicycle became the most popular form of conveyance. people who had just relied on the slow moving horse and buggy world had a way to get around cleanly, fast, very efficient, and for a lot of people this was their own form of independence, around this time, for example, a woman who has writing about suffrage, wrote a biograph called how i learn to ride the biffle. so gives you a sense of the new world of the bicycle and the most popular sport at this time was cycling. much more so than baseball, for example. if you wants to see fast-moving sport you went to one of the men bell dreams and there were white races and black dominated race but to the main races were dominated by white riders. major taylor had been bo
i ve seen the e-mail, liz, and the person who made the threat claimed for example that every school in new york city was somehow rigged to explode and made an illiterate reference to allah. the schools opened and stayed open and everything was we do not see that as a credible terrorist threat, and we are investigating it as a hoax. we believe that the e-mail originated overseas. the language in the e-mail would lead us to believe that this is not a jihadist initiative. they should have closed the schools, though, i think so because they never know if it was true or false. they said they knew. how do they know? they said they know. if they know i guess they know but i don t think they should have let the school stay open. they should have closed it just in case of an emergency. reporter: yes, they kept the school open but that is the sentiment we heard from many parents here this afternoon. they closed the schools in los angeles but the police city says that was in
services. we are highly committed. reporter: the mayor points out the need for restructuring because it has been in place 20 years and does not meet the current needs. reporting live, tim fleischer, channel 7 eyewitness news. tim, thank you. we are following breaking news right now. two big problems for long island railroad commuters. westbound service is temporarily suspended on the babylon branch because of signal problems in freeport. on the ronkonkoma branch, a truck hit a vehicle near the bethpage station there. commuters should expect disruptions there as well. we received a someone on board the train struck. no injuries to report. we are continuing to monitor the situation and we will keep you posted on the delays. now the terror threats against the school system of new york and los angeles. lots of second guessing of officials in l.a. that got virtually the same e- mail as officials in new york threatening an attack on the schools but it was apparently a hoa
the decision to close schools in los angeles that publicized the apparent hoax. to disrupt the daily schedules of half a million schoolchildren, their parents, day care, buses based on an anonymous e-mail without consultation, if in fact consultation did not occur with law enforcement authorities, i think it was a significant overreaction, yes. reporter: tonight many security experts are praising the decision here in new york to keep the schools open. we will hear from one of those security experts at 6:00 tonight. live in fort greene, brooklyn, n.j. burkett, channel 7 eyewitness news. n.j., thank you. the lapd so far says 80% of the schools have been cleared. authorities hope to have the systemwide sweep completed by 7:00 p.m. our time. administrators are defending their calls to close the schools. reporter: well, sade, the latest reports are that this was a hoax and that comes from u.s. representative adam shift from los angeles and a ranking member in the house i
donald trump s plan to ban muslim immigrants coming to america. jeb bush hit first. so donald is great at the one-liners. but he s a chaos candidate. he would be a chaos president. but trump dismissed bush as a failed candidate in a struggling campaign. jeb doesn t really believe i m unhinged. he said that very simply because he has failed in this campaign. it s been a total disaster. ted cruz and marco rubio became bogged down bickering over a surveillance bill. governor christie seized the opportunity. if your eyes are glazed over like mine this is what it s like to be on the floor of the united states senate. later they quarreled over what is tougher on isis with rubio questioning cuts to our defense budget. it is a fact the cuts we are facing today and the cuts that senator cruz would have supported would leave us with a smaller air force. if i am elect president we will hunt down and kill the terrorists. i m talking right now. you can go back. and a